Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[Wildweasel74]

How they add extra players to the panel when they seen little of the championship. Are they relying on Enda Muldoon to highlight new players?

[LoughNeagh]

How they add extra players to the panel when they seen little of the championship. Are they replying on Enda Muldoon to highlight new players?

cameras are a thing

[ck]

Good appointment for Derry. All's well that ends well.
More mileage for that clown Brolly.

[JE23]

I fail to understand how Tally is any better than a number of managers in Derry? At least its two Derry man in the backroom team. In saying that I wish him well and full steam ahead.

Also have to agree with a few posters, Keenan and Barker need to resign following this mess

Who in Derry is better than Tally and/or would have been interested in the Derry job??

[statto]

Would Derry people be happy with staying in division one and reaching last 8 of all ireland in 2025 and take it from there?

I won't be happy unless we get to a semi final. Would like another Ulster final appearance as well.

We definitely are a top 6 team so a qf and staying up is expected.

The way finished up last year are they really?  Didn't lay a glove on Kerry and was a 5 point hammering really, compared to the year before when they really had them on the ropes.  By the time the year finished they were in turmoil and the wheels looked to have fallen off.  I remember watching the Westmeath game and they just looked like a team that needed put out of their misery.  The talent in Derry has never been in doubt but the mentality has always been questionable.  Its a 20 plus man game these days and Derry still need to develop the 5 subs that can help them finish out the bigger games for me. 

The carry on with getting a new manager can't be good for the group either.   Armagh, Galway, Kerry, Dublin, Donegal are all certainly ahead of them the way the season finished out and Tyrone can't be as bad again beat Mayo on penalties so nothing between them going on last year.  I would expect Tyrone to be a very dangerous animal this year.  2003 the year after Armagh won the AI they got a bounce off that along with a new manager could history repeat itself?

[Scorcher1]

How they add extra players to the panel when they seen little of the championship. Are they replying on Enda Muldoon to highlight new players?

Seen an article which made a good point. Derry will be without a lot of their best defenders for the start of the season with injuries etc. there is a definite need to strengthen this area of the panel and hopefully someone has been watching closely as there is definitely players out there.

[Keyser soze]

Seriously underwhelming appointment if the Tally news is true. Especially given his tendency towards defensive football, with the new rules promoting attacking play imminent.

Who would you suggest would have been 'overwhelming'?

We would happily settle for whelming.

[Derry Man]

I fail to understand how Tally is any better than a number of managers in Derry? At least its two Derry man in the backroom team. In saying that I wish him well and full steam ahead.

Also have to agree with a few posters, Keenan and Barker need to resign following this mess

Who in Derry is better than Tally and/or would have been interested in the Derry job??

You'll not get an answer, some men live in fantasy land.

[roadsidefox]

Seriously underwhelming appointment if the Tally news is true. Especially given his tendency towards defensive football, with the new rules promoting attacking play imminent.

Who would you suggest would have been 'overwhelming'?

We would happily settle for whelming.

Ok, go. Who would have been whelming?

[JE23]

I fail to understand how Tally is any better than a number of managers in Derry? At least its two Derry man in the backroom team. In saying that I wish him well and full steam ahead.

Also have to agree with a few posters, Keenan and Barker need to resign following this mess

Who in Derry is better than Tally and/or would have been interested in the Derry job??

You'll not get an answer, some men live in fantasy land.

Agree, too many listening to Joe Brolly!

[Keyser soze]

Seriously underwhelming appointment if the Tally news is true. Especially given his tendency towards defensive football, with the new rules promoting attacking play imminent.

Who would you suggest would have been 'overwhelming'?

We would happily settle for whelming.

Ok, go. Who would have been whelming?

Here mate, you can GTF with the attitude. 

[statto]

The way things turned out I think Paddy Tally is a good appointment.  Good tactician, experience of winning and being in and around big players. His Sigerson success was a remarkable achievement with St Marys. 

[WT4E]

The way things turned out I think Paddy Tally is a good appointment.  Good tactician, experience of winning and being in and around big players. His Sigerson success was a remarkable achievement with St Marys. 

And from Tyrone.... essential to teach you lads how to play a bit of ball!

[tbrick18]

The way things turned out I think Paddy Tally is a good appointment.  Good tactician, experience of winning and being in and around big players. His Sigerson success was a remarkable achievement with St Marys. 

And from Tyrone.... essential to teach you lads how to play a bit of ball!

Maybe yous Tirronies should be worried then, because the last few times we played yous there was a fair auld gap between us. Now that we have a Tyrone man teaching us how to play, your Fermanagh man will be quaking in his boots   

[tbrick18]

I'd have my own reservations about Tally (mostly from when he was last with Derry), but on paper he's well qualified and he's got experience of being in and around teams with AI's in the bag.

I haven't seen who the backroom team is, but I'd imagine it will include Muldoon who would have all the knowledge on players in the county. It's not as if we need a full rebuild, we just need to build on what we've got and if possible strengthen a few areas.

When the dust settles, we'll get on with it and we'll support the team and management. If we can retain Div1 status, which will be difficult this year, that will be a real start. From the championship POV, performances are key. We all want to win every game, but if you get beat whilst performing to your best then at least you go out knowing you did all you could. We didn't do that in a single championship game last year, so the first goal this year is to improve on the performances first and then see where that takes us.

We still have players that could challenge any team, that hasn't changed.
Harte wasn't able to get a performance out of them for what ever reason, but lets hope Tally can.